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Installing Tiger VNC on Fedora 16

VNC is a great product that allows you to get a GUI session between different or the same O/S. This article describes installing VNC on a Fedora 16 box Steps 1. Using YumEx or similar install TigerVNC 2. Copy: /lib/systemd/system/vncserver@.service to /lib/systemd/system/vncserver@:1.service – Where I have “:1.” to which ever port you want to use… read more…
Fix Firefox so it uses the Adobe Acrobat plugin for PDFs

Have you noticed recently that when you look at PDFs in Firefox the plugin doesn’t look quite the way you are used to, it’s more gray and doesn’t have any of that typical Adobe Acrobat look and feel to it. In particular if you move to the bottom of the window you don’t see the… read more…
OpenLDAP for Windows

This is a very simple article to keep small bits of info about installing OpenLDAP for Windows. I am using the version available from UserBooster as it seemed to work quite well for me. Resources OpenLDAP for Windows from UserBooster http://userbooster.de/en/download/openldap-for-windows.aspx The licensing for OpenLDAP for Windows from UserBooster states: “OpenLDAP for Windows is free… read more…
Running ESXi 5.1 from a USB key

Overview There are quite a lot of postings on the web about upgrading to ESXi 5.1 and running from a USB key but this post is more about my experience and basically a note to myself about what I did so if I have to do it again I know what I did. Who knows… read more…
St Francis de Sales – another ripper kiwi church

Recently I went to a lovely wedding at the St Frances de Sales Catholic church in Devonport and I was really impressed by what it looks like inside and what a fantastic job the church has done and how well they look after it and how immaculate they keep it looks. I really felt I… read more…
Disabling screensavers on Fedora 16

The motivation here was that I had a MythTV frontend running in our lounge connected to a 42″ flat screen with LED back lighting, I had no need to have a screensaver and actually found it very annoying. Unfortunately, at least on Fedora 16, disabling or removing the screensaver is not as easy as you… read more…
Fedora 16 with NVidia GT 610 and MythTV

The trials and tribulations of getting an NVidia GT 610 graphics card working on a Fedora 16 MythTV frontend. This article details what worked for me. read more…
Linux Printer/CUPS Administration

I hope you didn’t get here expecting to find the holy grail and answer to all your printing problems in Fedora or Linux because you may be disappointing 😛 I was having trouble setting up printing on a Fedora 16 system and was frustrated by the lack of configuration available in “System Settings | Printing”:… read more…
Disabling comments in WordPress

There are a number of ways to achieve this but one simple one I found was to set: Users must be registered and logged in to comment This is by no means the only way to resolve the problem of unwanted comments and emails, but it worked for me until I find an anti spam… read more…
How do I find the version of Subversion used by my SVN server

Overview You connect to an Subversion server that you don’t manage yourself – perhaps a company one or open source project, and you want to know what version of Subversion is it running. Resolution 1. Login to your Subversion repository using Firefox or a variant of Firefox like Waterfox 2. Select: Tools | Web Developer… read more…